I'm afraid Hyde is very tired as well... a very predictable thing, considering usual rockstar lifestyles and media pressure...
Approaching his fifties, he could be possibly reorganising his programs under a creative point of view, according to his present capabilities and desires. Visual kei artists have to deal with the visual aspect of their 'character' much more than others, and this oblige them to deal with the passage of time, which can be emotionally difficult to do...
Some time ago he said he had some depressive periods, very frequent for some artists, but I don't believe they were
too serious ones... He has a kind of positive aura and - despite his myth - he seems a very spontaneous guy, and I still like him as a person very much...
We've got to give him credit for having spread J-rock abroad - perhaps in the West he is even more famous than our beloved X Japan (
) - and it could be due to his singing that is 'sharp' (as Vamps), but can be very melodic as well as L'Arc en Ciel (or as in 'Roentgen'), a type of sound western people are more used to if compared with other japanese or eastern singers' voices which maintain the same note without 'trilling'... Imho...